Murugan Ramalingam

Place: Thiruthuraipoondi

Born: 1939

Biography:

M Ramalingam, also known as Murugan Ramalingam, is a Tamil, literary critic, and translator from Tamil Nadu, India. He was born in Thiruthuraipoondi, Thanjavur District in 1939 and joined the Tamil Nadu Educational Service in 1964. He later became Professor and Head of the Tamil department at Government Arts College, Kumbakonam. He has written seven volumes of literary criticism and in 1981, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his critical work on modern Tamil prose Pudhiya Urai Nadai (lit. The New Prose).